by Alexandre Dumas

Name: Twenty Years After — Chapter 22. Saint Denis
Author: by Alexandre Dumas

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“Twenty Years After — Chapter 22. Saint Denis”, published in 1845, is a work by by Alexandre Dumas. It explores elements such as Athos, Raoul and royalty.

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ Should the king prove a tyrant, for power begets tyranny, serve, love, respect royalty, that Divine right, that celestial spark which makes this dust still powerful and holy, so that we - gentlemen, nevertheless, of rank and condition - are as nothing in comparison with the cold corpse there extended."
"I shall adore God, sir," said Raoul, "respect royalty and ever serve the king. And if death be my lot, I hope to die for the king, for royalty and for God. Have I, sir, comprehended your instructions?"
Athos smiled.
"Yours is a noble nature." he said; "here is your sword." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ Raoul, learn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material appearance for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything. Raoul, I seem to read your future destiny as through a cloud. It will be happier, I think, than ours has been. Different in your fate from us, you will have a king without a minister, whom you may serve, love, respect. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ He whose intellect was thus supreme, Raoul, was the actual sovereign; the other, nothing but a phantom to whom he lent a soul; and yet, so powerful is majesty amongst us, this man has not even the honor of a tomb at the feet of him in whose service his life was worn away. Remember, Raoul, this! If Richelieu made the king, by comparison, seem small, he made royalty great. The Palace of the Louvre contains two things - the king, who must die, and royalty, which never dies. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ Should your hand still be too weak to use this sword, Raoul, so much the better. You will have the more time to learn to draw it only when it ought to be used."
"Sir," replied Raoul, putting the sword to his lips as he received it from the count, "I owe you everything and yet this sword is the most precious gift you have yet made me. I will wear it, I swear to you, as a grateful man should do."
"'Tis well; arise, vicomte, embrace me."
Raoul arose and threw himself with emotion into the count's arms. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ Thus talking, they traversed the streets, full of people on account of the fete, and arrived opposite the old cathedral, where first mass was going on.
"Let us alight; Raoul," said Athos. "Olivain, take care of our horses and give me my sword."
The two gentlemen then went into the church. Athos gave Raoul some of the holy water. A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ But imagination has the wings of an angel of light and travels safely through or over the seas where we have been almost shipwrecked, the darkness in which our illusions are lost, the precipice whence our happiness has been hurled and swallowed up. He remembered that all the first part of his life had been embittered by a woman and he thought with alarm of the influence love might assume over so fine, and at the same time so vigorous an organization as that of Raoul. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 22… (1845)

“ He who fires the first shot rarely hits his man, for he fires with the apprehension of being disarmed, before an armed foe; then, whilst he fires, make your horse rear; that manoeuvre has saved my life several times."
"I shall do so, if only in gratitude - - "
"Eh!" cried Athos, "are not those fellows poachers they have arrested yonder? They are. Then another important thing, Raoul: should you be wounded in a battle, and fall from your horse, if you have any strength left, disentangle yourself from the line that your regiment has formed ”

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